im curious. how would landing work? may be a silly question, as i have no experience, but i would imagine that landing without use of your legs would not be an easy task. thats amazing though! thanks for sharing that...truly inspiring!

The bridge runs over the Snake River, so Russell performed intentional water landings. We had two boats ready to fish him out, and he was able to tread water without problems during the brief period it took us to get to him.

We're all brainstorming ways of allowing him to land on dry groud so we can get him Paraplegic BASE #1.

Hmmm... interesting thought. Maybe something akin to swoop cords, but for his legs so he can track.

It seems to me that with Russel we need to throw out all notions of what a "standard" BASE harness is all about... because it's designed around landing with your legs. Seems to me maybe something along the lines of what his paragliding harness is like may be do-able in a BASE environment. That is, we need to come up with something that will let him land in more of a sitting, rather than a standing, orientation.